]]>2017-09-26T14:51:082017-09-26T14:51:08https://thesirenboard.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4142&p=184648#p184648I've been interested in this Cold War stuff since I was a kid, and I well remember air raid shelters, routine testing of the sirens, and the Cuba missile crisis. Actually, there is a manufacturer just down the street from where I work in Montebello which _still_ manufactures bomb shelters. Occasionally I see newly manufactured ones out in their parking lot, ready for delivery to their new owners.

That's surely an appropriate name! I tried to tie it in with the list of sirens in the Los Angeles area but couldn't find it; does anybody in this area know if this was part of the main CD siren network? I know that there was a large aircraft manufacturer in Pico Rivera which is very close to this location.

It more than likely would've been an LA siren back in the day. LA had a huge system: Tbolts, 500s, SD-10s, Model 5s, HOR Siro-Drones, Chryslers even! And now Scream Masters it seems. A majority of the old LA sirens are still up as well. If you want to have a gander, here is my map of all the LA sirens I have been able to locate:https://drive.google.com/open?id=1mS7Rb ... sp=sharing

Its located on the SW corner of Greenwood and Washington in Montebello, CA. I drive past it every day coming home from work. I've tried to identify it from the lists I have found online but nothing seems to show up. I've seen this type of "Birdcage" siren before elsewhere.

]]>2017-09-25T22:50:402017-09-25T22:50:40https://thesirenboard.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5371&p=184641#p184641major but half assed) For example they used VHF connectors on a lot of the interface cables to the radio and forced the connector into a N-Type connector, ALL the battery blankets have been installed wrong and even has instructions on them, screws on the terminal block have been so loose that sometimes the door open/close alarm goes off, Battery cables were on backwards and the wrong way. So I have been going on preventive maintenance runs, and tomorrow I will be replacing 4 slip rings that have burned up due to a manufactures defect. This is our 14th or 15th siren (10%) of new sirens that have had burnt brushes or slip rings burnt up.

I just remembered I had a drawing of that siren on PCH and Camino Capistrano Rd mounted to a street light which I had posted on the old board after I last saw it during a visit to Dana Pt. It's located near a "Pacific Sales" store (a place that sells professional-style kitchen appliances like Wolf Stoves and Sub-Zero refrigerators)

I'll just clean it up and post it here. The drawing isn't actually to scale; if I remember correctly, the siren itself appeared to be the around the size of the SD-10 [>=<]

Hmm that site ,as of now with the Whelen ,it looks like there wasn't a Toshiba there before because If it did the pole would've had a flange/disc at the top where the horns were mounted on.

I'm disappointed to say that the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station has decided to replace their mysterious Toshiba-built sirens with WPS-2900s. Unfortunately, I was planning to drive all the way to Pomona from San Diego to photo these beauties, but I was surprised to see a Whelen in the place I normally saw the first Thunderbolt-style siren. I kept driving, only to find that every siren location on the 5 now had a Whelen WPS-2900 of a various size. I really wished to get one last look at these sirens, but I suppose that day will never come.

However...

Due to the fact that these sirens may have been taken down within the last month or so, there still is a chance to contact SONGS's emergency coordinator to see if these sirens are available (and not turned into scrap metal).

So...

Since Southern California's Edison website doesn't have much information on who to contact for the sirens, would anyone like to help to preserve these sirens and, possibly, take a peek inside them to see what they're made of?

I know it's been 11 years since the old sirens have been replaced but I'm going to call SONGS and ask where did they go to.